Contemplating Gandhi — Essays on Mahatma’s Life and Thought -Gandhian Vision, Gandhian Thought

Description

• About the Author
• About the Translator and Editor
• About Ramkrishna Bajaj by  Shekhar Bajaj
• About Justice C. S. Dharmadhikari by Justice Satyaranjan C. Dharmadhikari
• Translator’s Preface (Dr Ramchandra Pradhan)
• From The Publisher
• Preface (Justice Chandrashekhar Dharmadhikari)
• Translator’s Note by Dr Ramchandra Pradhan
• Contemplating Gandhi: A Handbook of Gandhian Insights for All by Randhir Kumar Gautam
• Some Reminiscences of Mahatma Gandhi
• Mindset Behind Gandhi’s Assassination
• Culture of Peace: Some Reflections
• Gandhi: The Commander of Brave Soldiers
• Unpleasant Fatherhood of the Father of the Nation
• Taking the Law into One’s Hands: Its Appropriateness and Inappropriateness
• Mainstay of Humanist Faith
• Gandhiji and Harijans
• The Issue of Purity of Means in Our Times
• Gandhi’s Expectations from Our Judicial System
• Gandhi’s Preferred System of Governance
• Gandhi’s Concept of Trusteeship
• Towards a Gandhian Educational System
• Gandhian Vision of Environment and Development
• Gandhian Economics: Some Observations
• Gandhi and Multi-National Companies
• Gandhiji and Social Institutions
• Success and Failure of Sarvodaya Institutions
• Baba Saheb and Mahatma
• Importance of Motherhood
• Jyotiba Phule: The First Mahatma
• Ba: The Fragrance of Kasturi
• Bhagat Singh and Gandhi
• Who is Scared of Gandhi and Why?
• The Real Context of Gandhi’s Fast
• Sevagram Ashram
• Socialism and Secularism
• Guarding the Vanguard
• What Gandhi Would Have Done If Alive Today?
• Appendices
  • Gandhi’s Last Will and Testament
  • Dharmadhikari Family and Mahatma Gandhi
  • A Chronology of Major Events in Gandhi’s Life
  • Glossary
  • Bapu’s Daily Routine in Sabarmati and Sevagram Ashrams
• Select Bibliography
• Contemplating Gandhi (Brief Biographical Sketches of
  Some of the Prominent Freedom Fighters Prepared
  by Randhir Kumar Gautam)
• Index

About the Book

The essays compiled in this book were written on different occasions. They were penned at the behest of my friends, well-wishers and others. On those occasions, it did not occur to me that one day these essays would be put within the two covers of a book. I am aware of the fact that I am not one of those writers who put their ideas in a very concise and precise way. No one has accused me of being such an adept writer! I speak on different themes on different occasions and many themes and thoughts keep on coming in the course of my lectures. In such situations, it is quite natural for different streams of thoughts and themes to get intermingled. Some of these essays are based on my lectures.
Hence, some repetition of my thoughts and themes are bound to be there in these essays. I have not been much bothered about such repetitions. After all, what is repetition? It is not so easy to decide about its nature. Once I even sought the opinion of Dada on this issue. He responded to my query in his own characteristic style. He said: ‘There is nothing like repetition as things always come as new and real in changing contexts.’ Besides, even for a full explanation of a subject, repetition is necessary.